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Initial Thoughts About Windows 8

I am using a new Thinkpad with Windows 8, and once I got over the shock of all that crappy “app” gibberish on the start screen, I am actually pretty pleased.

Key things I figured out how to do:

(1) Boot or wake-up directly to the regular Windows desktop, and never have to see that fucken “app” crappe.

(2) Installed a nice little $5 start menu program from Stardock called “Start8” to get back the start menu.

(3) Adjusted the font size and background color settings.

One thing that is fucken pissing me offe like a motherfucker:

You can no longer select whatever typeface you want for the Windows user interface: you are stuck with Segoe or whatever the fucken fucke is the UI typeface they chose. It’s not terrible looking, but I really prefer Verdana.

One thing that is pretty goddamn cool: This motherfucker boots up fucken fast, and all the operating system tasks are very snappy.

Start8 is the first thing I installed when my personal lappy came preinstalled with 8. Ubuntu would have been the second, but I had a lot of problems getting it to work with my video card, such that I had to do a server CLI install then install Gnome-Desktop to turn it into a GUI.

Most freshly-installed Windows OSs boot fast. Then, when you install a bunch of crappe and updates and shitte, you will see the boot speed decrease considerably. I don’t have W8, but there’s no reason to think that MicroSoftDicke fixed this problem – no past versions have.